Conversation and Communication
A nonsense verse introduces the art of conversation followed by a discussion of rules that make for good conversation and communication. After the lesson, activities help the children practice conversation and communication skills.

Making Connections ? Coordinating Conjunctions
A discussion of simple and compound sentences, facilitated by the teacher, is followed by exercises where children identify simple sentences and conjunctions within compound sentences as well as using conjunctions to join simple sentences.

What can I say? ? Sharing Ideas
Activity A gives every child the opportunity to speak on a given subject. Activity B provides practice in preparing a speech and deciding how to present it.

Humpty Dumpty - Identifying Rhyming Words
The discussion re-introduces the concept of rhyming words, which the children will have encountered previously in their school career and looks at the patterns of rhyming words.

Big, Bigger, Biggest - Comparatives
The reading introduces the children to comparative and superlative adjectives and can be used as an individual task or as a paired activity.

Hidden Comparisons - Metaphors
The reading introduces the children to the concept of metaphors and can be used in small group or paired discussions. The activities are suitable for individual work or to be completed in pairs.

Going on ? Present Continuous Tense Objectives
The reading introduces the children to the present continuous tense and can be read individually or in pairs. Activities A and B provide practice in using the tense correctly and Activity C reinforces the information given on when the present continuous

ABC ? Introduction to the Dictionary
The lesson is an introduction to the use of the dictionary and starts with a review of the alphabet. This is designed to form part of a class discussion and sorting using the first and second letter could be practiced in class.

Synonyms and Antonyms
The reading introduces the children to synonyms and antonyms and gives examples. It is designed for individual or paired reading but could also be used as part of a class discussion.

English ? Homonyms
Activity A could be used as a paired activity and requires the children to think of homonyms which would be appropriate for use in the sentences. Activity B is an individual activity.

As Big As - Similes
The reading introduces the children to the concept of similes and can be done either individually or as a class discussion.

Once Upon a Time ? Story Telling
The reading is an introduction to the art of storytelling and should, ideally, be used as part of a class discussion on the concept.

Adjectives
These activities provide students with the basics for the part of speech adjective. It includes a guide to help them categorize adjectives based on the descriptive question that they answer.

Adverbs
These activities provide students with the basics for the part of speech adverb. It includes a guide to help them categorize adverbs by the question that they answer: how and when.

Nouns
These activities provide students with the basics for the part of speech noun. It includes a guide to help them categorize nouns into person, place, thing, or idea and instructs them on singular, plural and gives them an opportunity to identify nouns.

Pronouns
These activities provide students with the basics for the part of speech pronoun. It includes a guide to help them identify pronouns in a sentence and how to match the correct pronoun to the noun. The lesson also gives them writing practice.

Verbs
These activities provide students with the basics for the part of speech verb. It includes a guide to help them identify action verbs in sentences and use them in their own sentence writing. Students will also be given practice on tense identification.

Animals, Animals! Noun Animals
Beginning readers will learn to recognize nouns as parts of speech. This lesson will show them that nouns can be the names of animals.

Person, Place, or Thing Noun Hunt
This lesson starts with common nouns to familiarize children with words that are nouns. Children take what they have learned in earlier lessons to show that the names of persons, places, things, or animals are nouns.

Am I a Person? People Nouns
Beginning readers will learn to recognize nouns as parts of speech. This lesson will show them nouns can be the names of people.

Am I a Place? Place Nouns
Beginning readers will learn to recognize nouns as parts of speech. This lesson will show them that nouns can be the name of a place.

Initial Sounds with Word Families
While this lesson is designed for younger students it can be used to instruct an English language learner or a struggling older student. This phonemic awareness lesson is a great lesson to utilize when teaching beginning reading skills.

Letter Recognition and Sound Review
This lesson is designed to help Kindergarten students learn and master letter names, recognition and sounds. While this lesson is designed for younger students it can be used to instruct an English language learner or a struggling older student.

Long Vowels with Silent ?E?
This lesson is designed to help 1st grade students learn and master long vowel sounds in cVcE words. While this lesson is designed for younger students it can be used to instruct an English language learner or a struggling older student.

Segmenting and Blending with Word Families
While this lesson is designed for younger students it can be used to instruct an English language learner or a struggling older student. This phonemic awareness lesson is a great lesson to utilize when teaching beginning reading skills.

Short Vowel Review
This lesson is designed to help 1st grade students learn and master short vowel sounds and cVc words.

Learning About Adverbs
This lesson introduces the adverb as a part of speech. Activity A reinforces the concept of adverbs falling into the categories of manner, time and place. Activity B requires them to identify adverbs in a text.

The Past Tense
This lesson introduces the past tense. Activity A gives further practice in changing present tense to past tense, using regular verbs. Activity B requires the children to identify the past tense of a verb and indicate whether it is regular or irregular.

Future Tense
This lesson briefly reviews the parts of speech the children have already learned and introduces the simple future tense.

Fill in the Nouns
This is a short lesson in understanding that the world is filled with common and proper nouns. It is also an indirect lesson on using creativity to form funny or serious sentences by changing the nouns.

Nouns All Around
This is another lesson about recognizing the differences between common nouns and proper nouns. Children are shown how nouns work in speech and print.

Noun Switcheroo
This is another lesson for children to learn the differences between common nouns and proper nouns. It also teaches children that a common noun can be equated to a proper noun by naming a specific person, place, or thing.

Proper Nouns About Me
This lesson will personalize proper nouns that are specific to a child?s life. It will also help children to understand the relationship between a common noun and a proper noun for the same person, place, or thing. For example boy and Brian.

Very Proper Nouns
A beginning lesson on learning the differences between common nouns and proper nouns.

Punctuation
This lesson explains the importance of punctuation in writing and introduces some of the more common punctuation marks. Activity A reinforces the knowledge presented in the lesson. Activity B gives the children an opportunity to use punctuation correctly.

Writing Instruction
This lesson teaches the children how to write clear instructions. Activity A emphasizes the importance of writing the different steps in the correct sequence. Activity B gives the children an opportunity to write out and follow a set of instructions.

It?s A Zoo!
Noun And Article Search
A review lesson to reinforce the idea that articles and nouns are often paired together in a sentence. If students are having trouble identifying nouns, this will also give them a pointer to look for articles before nouns.

OOPS! Who used the wrong article?
To reinforce the proper use of articles, the, a or an. Help children develop a connection between the right or wrong sound of a sentence.

ARTICLES Using A and An
To teach students how to identify articles - a, an and the. Students will learn to use a before nouns beginning with a consonants and an before nouns beginning with a vowel.

Fill in the Article A, An and The
To reinforce the use of articles - a and an, by having students fill in the blanks with the proper article. An introduction to developing a sense of which article sounds right in a sentence.

Fun With Adjectives
A lesson on how to use adjectives to paint a vivid word picture. Using adjectives that make sense to fill in the blanks of a creative story. A short lesson in creative writing.

Predicate Adjectives
A short lesson on predicate adjectives to show children how adjectives can come before or after the noun.

Summing up - Summarizing
The first section of the reading is based on Milne?s poem and is for full class discussion. The story following is for individual reading and is the basis of two of the activities.

Dream On: More Action Verbs
This lesson introduces another type of action verbs. It shows how intangible words such as dream, hope, fear, etc. can be used as action verbs. It also reinforces action words as an important part of a sentence.

Linking Verbs: To Be or Not To Be
An introduction to using forms of the verb to be. Teaches the eight words that make up the verb to be. Also teaches good grammar as children must place words in sentences by how the verb form sounds.

Action or Being: Which Verb Do I Use?
This lesson explains the difference between action verbs and state-of-being verbs. The lesson introduces the four common parts of the verb to be: am, is, are, and be.

More Action Verbs
This lesson introduces another part of speech - verbs. It is designed to help students understand that verbs are the doing part of a sentence, showing movement or action.

Proper Adjectives
A beginning lesson on proper adjectives, showing children another part of speech that needs capitalization.

And then what? - Word Sequence
Activity A helps the children identify sequence words. Activity B reinforces the concept of using sequence words to correctly order events. Activity C gives the children the opportunity to practice using the words to describe events in sequence.

Prepositions: Time, Place, Direction
This lesson introduces prepositions of time, place and direction. Activity A is an exercise in identifying the three different classes of prepositions. Activity B gives children an opportunity to use prepositions in their own writing.

Gone With the Past: Past Tense Verbs
Another lesson on using past tense verbs. It is designed to show students how to add an ed ending to change present tense verbs into past tense verbs.

A Past Thing: Past Tense Verbs
This lesson introduces past tense verbs. It provides a short summary of all three verb tenses with examples to show the difference.

Zoom to the Future - Future Tense Verbs
This lesson introduces future tense verbs. It is intended to teach students how to identify a future tense verb by locating the key word will in a sentence.

Learning About Prepositional Phrases
This lesson presupposes that the children have been introduced to the preposition as a part of speech. The discussion is designed for the teacher to use as part of the lesson.

Using Future Perfect Tense
A short lesson on how to use past participles. Students will change or write sentences using the future perfect tense.

Using Verbs and Past Participles
This lesson introduces the three principal parts of a verb ? present, past, and past participle. It also reviews the types of verbs and verb tenses.

Art ? Paper Pasting ? Doing Collage
The lesson introduces the children to the ancient art of collage. The activities, A to D, lead the children through the process of producing a two-dimensional collage.

Language ? Modifier Phrases
The lesson assumes an understanding of modifiers in the form of adverbs and adjectives and the difference between a sentence and a phrase.

Simple Sentence Structure
Activity A requires the children to identify the two main parts of a simple sentence ? the subject, or noun clause and the predicate. Activity B gives them the opportunity to write their own sentences, using the table to show how they are formed.

Is It Irregular?
This is a lesson to reinforce the concept of irregular verbs. Students are given the chance to change incorrect verbs to the correct form. This is a good review to assess understanding of the subject.

That Troublesome Pair: Lie, Lay
This is a lesson to show the difference between the verbs to lie and to lay. Definitions are included. Students are required to answer questions about this confusing pair.

Regular or Irregular Verbs
An introduction to regular and irregular verbs. Examples are provided, showing examples of regular and irregular verb tenses.

Sit or Set
A short lesson on using the troublesome irregular verb pair set and sit. Students will use each word in a sentence and answer questions on correct usage.

Using Irregular Verbs Correctly
A short lesson on how to use irregular verbs correctly. It is also a review of irregular verbs that do not change form, but stay the same in all tenses.

Verb SOS! Using Helping Verbs
A lesson describing helping verbs and their usage in a sentence. Shows the twenty-three helping verbs and eight forms of the verb to be.

To be a Helper, Using the To Be Verbs
Another lesson in proper usage of the to be verbs with a review of the eight forms of this verb. Questions and fill in the blanks to gain mastery over the subject.

Help! Action Verbs and Their Helpers
Lesson in learning to use helping verbs ? especially forms of the verb to be.
Practice in understanding the three possible uses of a to be verb in a sentence.

What is the Case?
This lesson introduces the concepts of pronouns, possessive pronouns, and case.

Learning to Use Indefinite Pronouns
An introductory lesson about indefinite pronouns. A list of indefinite pronouns is provided for future use. Students should be encouraged to clip this list and place it in a grammar workbook for handy reference.

Reflected: Using Reflexive Pronouns
A lesson about how to use reflexive and intensive pronouns. Students will list the singular and plural intensive and reflexive pronouns, and answer review questions.

Using Interrogative Pronouns
A short lesson on how to use interrogative pronouns. Students will fill in sentences and write their own sentence using interrogative pronouns.

Pronoun Relative: Using Relative Pronouns
This is an introductory lesson about relative pronouns and how to use them. The students will test their knowledge by writing their own sentences. Choices are provided, allowing students to fill in the correct relative pronouns in a sentence.

Prepositional Phrases
An introductory lesson about prepositional phrases and how to use them. Students will write their own sentences using adjective phrases and adverb phrases.